Hate: Defusing It
Dave Neiwert of the indispensible Orcinus blog, and author of Strawberry Days, about the internement of Japanese Americans, has a …
Monthly Archives: July 2006
Environment: Oil Bug
There isn’t much good to talk about these days so this little article about oil-eating bacteria is at least a …
National Security: Who Are the Experts?
Glen Greenwald, How Would a Patriot Act, is one of the bloggers I turn to regularly. This post is worth …
Mexico – How to Contest An Election
Just in case the Mexican election had slipped off your radar — and why wouldn’t it?– this is a reminder …
Climate Change: Research
I remember, as a 10 year old in a new library, thinking it was possible to read all the books …
Foreign Interlopers
The Spanish believed in the early 1600s that they had a foreigners problem: the Moriscos. Granted, many of them had …
English and Irish: Arab and Jew
Today the Israelis are mercilessly bombing Lebanon, after, they say, the Shiia Hezbollah. Hezbollah is launching small rockets across the …
Woody Guthrie
I don’t have a lot of heros. Woody Guthrie is right at the top. For years I picked and sang …
Mumbai / Bombay Carnage
So why isn’t there more attention in the on-line world to the carnage in India? 200 dead, more than in …
Conservatives Without Conscience
This is a blockbuster interview of John Dean by Keith Olberman. Dean has just finished a book that started from …